Comment on Wrong Again of Wasted Potential
wastedpotential, 13 Sep 2009 09:09 am

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So, does it seem like this strip should have gone before last week's?
That's because it should have.
I uploaded the wrong strip last week, so this is the strip you should have seen then and the strip I put up last Sunday is actually this week's installment.
I considered just putting up this strip and seeing if anyone noticed.
By the way, I had caught the mistake by the time I uploaded the strip to the Facebook group, so the strips appear there in the proper order.
Now, of course, you have a reason to buy my next book this spring so you can read the strips in the right sequence.

Comment on Life's Little Mysteries of Wasted Potential
wastedpotential, 02 Aug 2009 11:11 am

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The strip's a little late. Sorry about that, but, as is my habit, I crashed at my sister's place last night following the monthly poker game we hold there, and I had some difficulty logging on to Smack Jeeves from her computer. Once I got home, though, I had no difficulty accessing the site, but it has been running a bit slow for me.
Anyway, here's today's strip, which is a prime demonstration of the reason we cartoonists and other artistic types keep a sketchbook. I was just doodling in mine a while ago and I did a little sketch of Amy looking upward. Immediately, the words she says in this strip popped into my head, and the exchange between Bill and Norm followed pretty quickly.

Comment on SJBonus Strip#2: Disco Lives! of Wasted Potential
wastedpotential, 27 Jun 2009 09:13 am

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This is the first "guest strip" in Wasted Potential's history. I work so far ahead that I don't need fill-ins to make deadline, so I don't solicit guest artists, and until Jonathon Riddle presented me with this strip a couple of weeks ago, no one's volunteered any. It's flattering actually, that someone not only thinks enough of the strip to want to pay homage in this manner, but that Jon has obviously been paying enough attention to it to capture not only the looks of the characters but a very close approximation of the strips style of humor. Like many WP strips, this one is based on a real conversation which occurred while Jon and I were watching "Prom Night", a film I was surprised that Jon, horror movie devotee that he is, had not previously seen.
By the way, you shall soon be hearing much of Mr. Riddle. He is currently working on illustrating a Graphic Novel set during WWII in Czechoslovakia, entitled "Five Plums". He expects to have the art finished early next year, so it'll probably be early 2011 before the book shows up on store shelves, but after that it's just a matter of Jon and writer Terry Eisel showing up to collect their Eisners, Ignatzes and SPACE Prizes.
Trust me on this.

Comment on Not The Results I'd Hoped For of Wasted Potential
wastedpotential, 07 Jun 2009 10:46 am

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Because WP is somewhat autobiographical, when I showed this strip to my friends after I finished it, the first question they asked was if something like this has ever happened to me.
No. No woman has ever said that to me. Out loud, at least. I'm sure quite a few have thought it.

Comment on WP Responds of Wasted Potential
wastedpotential, 24 May 2009 08:15 am

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Big Thanks to Mike Lucas, the "big mouthed wise guy" mentioned above, for pushing me to do this strip. Mike does a great strip of his own called "The Idioms" which, sadly, is not, at present, on-line, but you can read in Bob Corby's annual collection of independent comics, Oh, Comics! Check out Bob's web-site, backporchcomics.com, to order yourself a copy.